Image signature: Highlighting sparse salient regions

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 194-201

  Hou, Xiaodi ^a   Harel, Jonathan ^b   Koch, Christof ^a,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

change blindness; Saliency; sign function; sparse signal analysis; visual attention

Indexed keywords

CHANGE BLINDNESS; SALIENCY; SIGN FUNCTION; SPARSE SIGNALS; VISUAL ATTENTION;

ALGORITHMS; EYE PROTECTION;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 81855172211     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.146     Document Type: Article

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